From bug-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 18 14:22:37 2005
Subject: Re: Bug#290470: octave2.1: Octave's bug_report needs emacs or $EDITOR
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Thomas Weber <weber at num dot uni-sb dot de>
Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>, bug@octave.org
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:25:30 -0500

On 14-Jan-2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org> wrote:

| Thomas,
| 
| On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:15:28AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
| > Package: octave2.1
| > Version: 2.1.64-1
| > Severity: minor
| > 
| > 
| > octave:3> bug_report 
| > Please enter a one-line description of your bug report.
| > 
| > Subject: cross.m doesn't work when warn_resize_on_range_error = 1
| > warning: in fopen near line 46, column 11:
| > warning: fopen: default open mode is now binary
| > /usr/bin/octave-bug-2.1.64: line 226: emacs: command not found
| > problems with edit -- no bug report submitted
| > saving message in /home/thomas/dead-octave-bug-1
| > 
| > 
| > I don't have $EDITOR defined and the only emacs package installed is
| > emacsen-common - any chance of using /etc/alternatives/editor for this?

The octave-bug script uses

  : ${EDITOR=emacs}

to set the default value for EDITOR.  What would you suggest that is a
better solution?

jwe



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